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HENRY BUOZKOVVSKT, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

SOAP-SHEET FOR GENERAL USE AND FOR DISINFECTING PURPOSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 259,268, dated June 6,1882.

Application filed January 24,

1882. (Specimens) Patented in Germany December 1, 1881; in EnglandDecember 2, 1881, No. 5,285;

in Italy December 3, 1881, XV, 13,603, XXVII, 148; in Austria February2., 1882, Nos. 36,770 and 38,987; in Hungary February 2, 1882, Nos.3,842 and 3,849, and in Belgium February 528, 1882, No. 57,059.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BUozKowsKr, a citizen of Austria, residing atVienna, in the Empire of Austria-Hun gary, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Soap- Sheets for General Use and for DisinfectingPurposes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertaius to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved method of providing means forwashing and also for disinfecting at the same time, if desired, the samebeing a convenient substitute for soap as usually prepared in solidcakes or in liquid form; and it consists in the process or method ofmaking the article and inthe article made by such process, all ashereinafter more particularly set forth.

Hitherto soap in solid cakes or in liquidform has generally been usedasa means for washing. Its use in either of these usual forms is attendedwith many inconveniences, especially when the person using it is awayfrom home or traveling, or on a campaign, because when it is in solidform it has to be put aside, after using, in some sort of receptacle tokeep it from wetting or soiling garments, furniture, or other articleswith which it may come in contact, and when in liquid form it must ofcourse be kept in a vessel, and then attended to with care. Myinvention, however, does away with all this, and has, moreover, thefurther advantage that only so much soap is used as is actually requiredat eachv time, which is not the case with hard soap,

whose volume is reduced and wasted by the unavoidable moisture left onit, and by dissolving, even after being used.

To accomplish the purposes of my invention 1 coat or saturate sheets ofpaper, silk, linen, or any other woven or fibrous or textile material,or suitable substance fit to absorb liquid soap or soap solutions, witha layer of soap, and these soap-sheets, or parts thereof, are used inthe same way as soap is used.

In practicing my invention soapof any kind is melted and afterwarddissolved in alcohol or any other convenient dissolvent. Then paper orwoven stuffs, or any other material fit to absorb soap, is drawn throughthe solution orlcioated with a more or less heavy layer of soap. Thesheets are then dried in the open air or in a drying chamber or stove.The drying; being finished, this soap material thus manmfactured is putup or arranged in the fern", of rolls, leaflets, books, small volumes,blodns, 85o.

Widen required for use a leaf, or part of a leaf, as may be needed, istorn from the book or off the block, or a piece cut off the roll orleaflet and used with water instead of soap.

Garbolic acid or any other disinfectant may be added to the solution inorder to produce the soap-leaflets or soap-sheets, which, in addition totheir cleansing qualities, will have a disinfecting effect, thus chieflyrecommending themselves for use in hospitals, seminaries, and all suchplaces, where, because of large assemblages of human beings, there isrisk of a transmission of the germs of infectious diseases to manypersons.

Instead of first melting the soap and then dissolving it in alcohol orany other dissolvent, the soap, before being cast in molds, may directlybe dissolved, or an emulsion may be prepared thereof by the aid of anysuitable liquid, and the leaflets or sheets may be coated or treatedwith this solution or emulsion, as above. In this case, also, any kindof disinfectant may be added to the soap ingredients.

lclaim-- 1. The described method or process of manufacturing material asa substitute for soap,

consisting in treating sheets or leaflets of paper or fibrous or textilematerial by steeping or coating them with a soap solution or soapemulsion, and subsequently drying the same.

2. The described method or process of manufacturing a disinfecting rial,consisting in treating sheets or lea lets of paper or other material, asset forthdwith a soap solution or soap emulsion, and a so with adisinfectant.

3. As a new article of manufacture, sheets and-washin g .natetextilematerial treated, as above set forth, for use.

with a solution or coating of soap, and then In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature dried ready for use. in presence of two witnesses.

4. As a new article of manufacture, sheets or leaflets made of paper orother fibrous or textile material treated, as above set forth; with asolution or coating of soap and earbolie or leaflets made of paper orother fibrous or facid or other disinfectant, and then dried ready HENRYBUozKowsKL Witnesses HANS KOTTAS, VIoToR KARMIY.

